Quotes About Entitlement

I don't touch anything I don't deserve.

I'm not that type of guy that says, 'No, I think I deserve more.'

Those who belong to the film families may have a certain advantage, but nobody can keep you in this business if you don't deserve it.

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

I don't think anybody deserves anything than what they already have because I believe everyone gets what they deserve.

Nobody just deserves anything, nobody's just entitled to anything. You have to go out and get it.

Nobody deserves anything. What we get, everything is a blessing.

I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.

Players live a different life. They've been blessed. They live in a bubble and they live in a world where they get everything really. They've become film stars.

Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction.

Social Security is a tax.

I may sound naive, since everyone's decided the next two years are going to be all about 2016, but I look at what's happened over the years when there's been divided government. That's when we've done tax reform, that's when we've done entitlement reform - to move this economy forward on these big issues.

We need a new tax system. We need entitlement reform. We need immigration reform. These are not easy things. But it is going to take our political system working better.

You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'

Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.

While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.

So let me be clear, Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people.

Given the amount of money circulating in the sport, European taxpayers and supporters are entitled to know how their clubs are being managed.

We have a lot of taxpayers in this city who deserve to get every nickel of their tax dollars that they're entitled to from Washington, and I intend to make that happen.

America has always been a land of freedom that teaches you that the sky is the limit that you will succeed or you will fail based upon your ability and your effort. And every phrase of the sentence that I just uttered has been smothered in a soft pillow of entitlement, victimhood and security.

Screw it. I'll be in my Mansion soon.

And like most of her peers, Barbara Ann has a French postal worker's sense of divine entitlement when it comes to her hours.

But the rule for reciprocation, which states that those who give first are entitled to receive in return,

As the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr has written, "The most common form of hypocrisy among the privileged classes is to assume that their privileges are the just payments with which society rewards specially useful or meritorious functions," while accusing the underprivileged of "lacking what they have been denied the right to acquire.